Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

10.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

14.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

19.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

28.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

31.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

35.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

38.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

45.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

49.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom